Moron dice setting.

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Okay, on with post. The actual title of this post is "More on dice setting". Did you like how I use the word moron in the actual post title? (I'm trying real hard not to hurt my arm patting myself on the back for being so clever.)

So, as you may remember from my posts before football season started (sorry, I get easily distracted by football), I was doing some empirical research about dice setting and throwing.

So for the past few months I've played craps at least a dozen times, each time using a setting technique and throwing method, as described in various YouTube videos. I watched other people throw the dice also, and my non-scientific analysis of the number of people who do set the dice, is that at least 75% of all shooters do. Most of the shooters use the hardways set, where are the four and the four are together, the three and the three together, and so on.

I've also watched at least a hundred YouTube videos on the subject of dice setting and throwing. The problem with YouTube videos, is that often times, very often in fact, one shooter will disagree completely with another video maker about the proper way to set and throw. Here are some examples.

Watch this video. He recommends the "hard way" set as opposed to the "3- V" set. (This appears to be the most common consensus pick among the videos that I watched, btw.)

Now watch this video. He says the key is the "inside" numbers on the two dice, in other words the two numbers that touch each other when you hold the dice against each other. This goes against all of the other advice that I've seen on most of the other videos.

And there's others, with different methods of gripping, setting and throwing. Which one is right? Who the hell knows? Everyone thinks that they're right, and everyone who believe something different from them is wrong. aren't they all claim to back it up with "facts" or anecdotal stories about how they went on a monster roll.

Regardless, there are some people out there who strongly believe in using one set over another. I remain un-convinced, primarily because when you hit the back wall with the dice it totally randomizes what ends up happening on the table. If it didn't, the casino would never let you set the dice in the first place.

As I have said before in an earlier post, back in the 80s, when I started playing craps and Reno in Vegas, you are not allowed to set the dice. They would warn you once, and then pass the dice to the next shooter if you did it again. If you continued doing it they would throw you out.

Think about that for a second. Now days, the casinos allow you to set the dice. Do you think they would allow that if the profit margin on their craps tables was considerably lower than it used to be? Do you think they would put up with that for even one hour? Of course not.

And believe me, they track the winning percentage out to four decimal points. The box man, Pit Boss, Casino Shift Manager, and the Casino Manager all watch the craps games. In the case of the box man and  the Dice Pit Boss, that's all they do for their entire 8 hour shift. If they saw the game tanking everytime one particular player came up and started setting the dice, they would either change their rules or bar that player, or (probably) both.

So, in conclusion, let me say this. If you feel like it makes a difference, go ahead and do it. They're not stopping you, so give it a shot. I really don't think that there is a bit of difference, as it all comes down to random luck once the dice hit the back wall.

See you next time.

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